Soft tofu pouches filled with mochi rice cake, creating a comforting and traditional Japanese dish with rich texture and ...

Every year, Japan’s national police and emergency response services issue public warnings to be careful when eating mochi rice cakes, the sticky, sweet traditional delicacy served to celebrate the new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lunar New Year is celebrated with different foods depending on the culture, but across the Asian diaspora, there is one food in ...

A sticky New Year's tradition has reportedly claimed another life in Japan -- but if the elderly woman was the only casualty, it marks an improvement on previous years. Japan Today reports that a ...

Do you need a quick and nutritious snack that's easy to make? Give these chewy rice cakes a try. All you need is a microwave ...

As the excitement of the New Year starts to wear off and many of us, weary with our unattainable resolutions, have abandoned them in a fit, this one Asian country yet again comes face to face with one ...

A simple snack in Japan is becoming a deadly tradition. At least nine people have died after choking on mochi rice cakes. It's made with sticky rice and grilled beans and traditionally eaten in large ...

Shuji Mitsuishi is standing in the centre of his Japanese grocery, giggling like a schoolchild. Fists locked into a makeshift mallet, he’s pretending to strike an imaginary object. His wife, Reiko, is ...

They are round, sweet...and deadly. Japan's festive treat known as mochi has killed two people who suffocated on the rice cakes traditionally served on New Year's Day. Seven others were listed in ...

Since I started working at BA, I’ve worried that my colleagues suspect I’m operating for the mochi lobby (“Big Mochi”), pushing the “Mochi Agenda” at every opportunity with recipes, story ideas, and ...

Nursery school children in northern Japan have tried their hand at making sticky rice cakes, or mochi, which will be used as New Year's decorations. At a nursery school in Aomori Prefecture's Hirosaki ...